doc: promote "git restore"

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / gitcli.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 592e06d839d87f28cf6cbbdcf3aa3253da2eb9f0..1ed3ca33b7a94ad8187d7fa490cc212711fd578e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ disambiguating `--` at appropriate places.
    things:
 +
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-$ git checkout -- *.c
-$ git checkout -- \*.c
+$ git restore *.c
+$ git restore \*.c
 --------------------------------
 +
 The former lets your shell expand the fileglob, and you are asking
@@ -209,6 +209,18 @@ See also http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116563135620359 and
 http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119150393620273 for further
 information.
 
+Some other commands that also work on files in the working tree and/or
+in the index can take `--staged` and/or `--worktree`.
+
+* `--staged` is exactly like `--cached`, which is used to ask a
+  command to only work on the index, not the working tree.
+
+* `--worktree` is the opposite, to ask a command to work on the
+  working tree only, not the index.
+
+* The two options can be specified together to ask a command to work
+  on both the index and the working tree.
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite